Why are we still on our own?

A dear Autistic friend called me the other day and he was several states away on his cell phone attending a convention. We were chatting of the autistic things that made the convention interesting ''for us" and discussed coping efforts and even exchanged insight on our "Echoloa" and things we said and what we did to control it. Mind you he is 1/2 my age and 20 something and had the "best" of Autism Education and still we connected and knew just where each other was coming from. This is the very nuts and bolts of Autism and the stuff only our inside information and insight experiences and the stuff only we can figure out, YET the Autism Guru's couldn't care less and they more worried their ego 's will be busted. Frankly, as an Autism professional I'd be ashamed to take a dime of anyone's money for research and purposely set on information like this.

I'm sure my friend is now way too successful and will never be admitted to in Autism Circles despite going to an autism school graduating and then going on in college and real life. That seems to be more than we are allowed to do. The scary part of that statement is our figured out Autism is the very insight no Autism Professional will ever find on their own, they simply don't have thoughts like ours. The blinders they wear naturally comfort them into thinking they are doing the right thing and as long as, they never admit to Autism's working populations they are OK and they continue with a smile on their face. However, If they admitted to us set down with us and (we have offered many times) and experience our thoughts from our point of view, not only would all the nagging questions about autism be answered and the "strange " reasons why some of us make it and some of us don't would be very obvious, we would also introduce Man to a different kind of thought that has never been in print before! Autism might very well be the slow-motion building blocks of the mind explained.

It seems we are a day late and a dollar short as autism's curse is raging on and until this snowball and avalanche hit someplace warm and autism sinks to its low ebb mankind is being cheated out of the insight it so desperately needs! Lead On Autism! It is just too bad Rain Man the movie spawned ( I love the movie by the way) such a mess. It is a shame autism awareness has not made people only aware of autism but, only the autism they invented. The old working stuff we did in double-blind, trial and error will never be admitted to by Autism's "professionals" we do nothing more than highlight the very points they missed! Did someone jump the gun a few too many times? Rich Shull http://prerainmanautism.blogspot.com